Bob Bauder reports: Pittsburgh’s first responders won’t be notified if they are exposed to a person later testing positive for covid-19, and officials said the situation poses a potential public health risk. The problem is federal privacy laws and Pennsylvania’s mounting number of positive covid-19 cases, officials said. Representatives of the Mayor’s Office and Public…
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Workplace Data Protection Issues Raised by Guidance and Efforts to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19
Andrea Ward of Squire Patton Boggs writes: Certain measures that are under consideration to help combat the threat of COVID-19 raise a number of questions about the practical impact of current guidance and efforts to prevent the spread of infection. Clearly, in light of the serious global threat posed by this virus, data protection is…
COVID-19 Guidance from French and Danish supervisory authorities
Last week, I published information from both Singapore and the U.S. to compare how they are handling disclosure and privacy issues in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, let’s look at France and Denmark. France Kristof Van Quathem and Dan Cooper of Covington and Burling write: On March 6, 2020, the French Supervisory Authority (“CNIL”)…
Becton Dickinson Beats Biometric Privacy Claims in Illinois
Sara Merken reports: An Illinois federal district court dismissed a hospital employee’s claims that Becton, Dickinson and Co. allegedly collected and stored his fingerprint data in violation of a state biometric privacy law. Plaintiff Corey Heard failed to state a claim against the medical device maker under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the U.S….